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FDA clears self-updating radiation planning software
A new regulatory shortcut could quietly solve the worst bottleneck in cancer treatment.
AI improves heart calcium scoring on basic scans
A new machine learning method extracts high-quality heart disease risk data from low-dose scans...
AI Outperforms Doctors on Cancer Reports
When algorithms read pathology reports better than the oncologists who ordered them, the bottleneck...
Algorithms sort Parkinson’s from lookalike brain diseases
A new machine learning approach shows that while AI can easily spot the difference...
The Health AI Brief — Week of July 6, 2026
What the First FDA-Cleared LLM Actually Does
Young people are outsourcing therapy to algorithms
When vulnerable teenagers turn to artificial intelligence for mental health advice, they are not...
AI tracks sleep disorder severity using video
A new study shows video foundation models can grade violent sleep movements, but their...
FDA Crackdown Hits Telehealth GLP-1 Sales
The wild west of online weight-loss drug marketing is officially coming to an end.
Physician epistemic framing alters the accuracy of large language models for medical second opinions
A doctor's self-doubt can degrade the accuracy of medical AI, proving that these systems...